Multiplayer Lobby Settings: four columns of match sliders

About this game

Developer: KING Art Games · Publisher: Deep Silver · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Settings / System

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What to study

Thirty-odd match rules presented as four tidy columns of word-valued sliders: the design bet is that a host thinks in categories (how should the economy feel?) rather than in systems, so COMBAT and ECONOMY get equal visual weight and every setting defaults to the same word, Medium, making any deviation read instantly. Keeping the map card and the player slots on the same screen as the rules closes the loop, you see what you are configuring, where, and for whom, before START MATCH. It is a settings screen that behaves like a briefing. Frame at about 7:18 in the Gameplay Overview Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0105.png at 437.5s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

panel-grid side-panel detail-card

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tabs List Map Marker Vitals bar Slots Slider Tooltip

Screen inventory

• the settings as four labelled columns of stepped sliders, GENERAL (Population Cap, Research Speed, Time Limit), ECONOMY (Starting Requisition, Waaagh! Growth, Dominion Income), COMBAT (Maximum HP, Damage Dealt/Received, Ability Cooldowns), DOMINATION (Victory Point Limit and Gains), every value a word (Medium, High, Default, None), never a raw number
• the hovered row explains itself in place: 'Starting Power, Set how much Power players have at the start of the match', a tooltip card that replaces the row's neighbours instead of covering the map
• centre-right: the map as a card, SINKING CITY, Domination, a top-down thumbnail with A/B start markers and a paragraph of flavour text, CHANGE MAP beneath it
• right: the SLOT roster, Blood Raven with a crown in slot 1, INVITE FRIEND in slot 2, and the persistent lobby frame (1/2, PRIVATE/PUBLIC, DISBAND / READY / START MATCH) shared with the loadout screen

Top 3 colors

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Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© KING Art Games / Deep Silver, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV screenshot: Gameplay Overview Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Deep Silver.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0105.png, 437.5s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled lobby settings screen, four slider columns, map card and slot roster sharp and legible

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